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...thumbnail," said Margulis, "was that it did away with handling a screwdriver, which might have germs on it. Handling inanimate objects had developed into a complicated ritual. When you were going to bring him a spoon, for example, the spoon handle had to be wrapped in Kleenex and Scotch-taped. Then you would take another piece of Kleenex to hold the Kleenex wrapping, so the wrapping wouldn't get contaminated. He would lift the wrapped spoon off the piece of Kleenex you were holding it with...
...batted big lashes at me. Could this be, I wondered, the same pasteurized number who had never been involved with anything seamier than hatching tadpoles in Richter's biology lab? Who had never shown more knee than the Brobdingnagianized safety-pin on her scotch-kilts would allow? Who had never pressed more flesh than when doing the Virginia Reel at Lucy Karambelas's Holy Communion Ball...
...British literary magazine Books and Bookmen. The heir apparent claims that Victoria was greatly misunderstood because of her famous judgment: "We are not amused." Actually, she was a "charming character" who "adored" a good laugh, says the prince. He cites, for example, an encounter between the Queen and a Scotch preacher named James MacGregor. In a service for Victoria at Crathie Church near Balmoral Castle, MacGregor appealed to the Almighty to "send down his wisdom on the Queen's ministers-who sorely need it." The plea caused some commotion in the royal pew. Writes Historian Charles: "Queen Victoria went...
...hearings and cover-up trials has already etched itself into history. The inner reality, it now appears, was very different. The conspirator who turned against his fellow criminals trembled at times at the thought of his lonely assault upon Richard Nixon, John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman. He climbed into his Scotch bottle in search of soothing stupor often enough to worry about becoming an alcoholic. He fretted over looking "too mousy" on television. Just before the hearings, he even considered fleeing the country...
Morning-after blues are a particular problem. But a quick Dexamyl, followed by several white crosses (bennies), puts one right for breakfast. A little Scotch on the bus mellows the transition between motel rooms, and a bottle of champagne primes one for the performance. "This is a rotgut life, but why worry?" smiles Van Zant. "We attract mostly drunk people and rowdy kids who come to shake...